Scala Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Scala
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Scala skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 121 128
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 +35
Contract jobs citing Scala 2 5 11
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.12% 0.23% 0.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.48% 0.99% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 9
10th Percentile £544 - £385
25th Percentile £572 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +59.38% - -20.00%
75th Percentile £697 £422 £538
90th Percentile £721 £461 £626
South East median daily rate £450 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% -4.76%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Scala falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 416 505 586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 24.54% 23.46% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 330 436
10th Percentile £325 £363 £313
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £625
90th Percentile £600 £663 £699
South East median daily rate £490 £514 £530
% change year-on-year -4.62% -3.07% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 12
10th Percentile - £35.58 £32.30
25th Percentile £18.75 £55.87 £32.32
Median hourly rate £19.50 £58.49 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -66.66% +20.85% -24.88%
75th Percentile £20.25 £72.28 £54.94
90th Percentile - £87.50 £63.66
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £64.76 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.07% +17.75% -12.00%

Scala
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scala relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Scala job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Scala
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Scala.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Scala

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scala in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scala in the Thames Valley

Scala
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Scala.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Scala

Scala
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scala within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +10 2 £638 +59.38% 4
Scala
South East

Scala
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks